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NAB NEWS: Avid offers Upgrade/Crossgrade to Symphony for $999
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If you’re running software-only, is the only different between MC and Symphony the secondary color correction?
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To be clear though, it does take some oversized source files. For instance, native RED via AMA, QuickTimes via Avid FX and stills via Pan & Zoom. Avid has discussed making MC/Sym/NC work with bigger than HD frames, but that hasn’t yet made it into a release version. Note that both MC and Symphony include full Stereo 3D workflows if you need that. Symphony for $995. Plus you get Avid FX, BCC8, Squeeze and Avid DVD thrown into the deal. Toss in Resolve Lite and Automatic Duck tools for free. Not a shabby package.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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To be clear though, it does take some oversized source files. For instance, native RED via AMA, QuickTimes via Avid FX and stills via Pan & Zoom. Avid has discussed making MC/Sym/NC work with bigger than HD frames, but that hasn’t yet made it into a release version. Note that both MC and Symphony include full Stereo 3D workflows if you need that. Symphony for $995. Plus you get Avid FX, BCC8, Squeeze and Avid DVD thrown into the deal. Toss in Resolve Lite and Automatic Duck tools for free. Not a bad package.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Yes but it’s still Avid. Not exactly fun to cut on, especially if you started on another NLE…
Lance Bachelder
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[Lance Bachelder] “Yes but it’s still Avid. Not exactly fun to cut on, especially if you started on another NLE..”
Subjective. To you maybe not. To others maybe yes. I started on Avid (linear before) and ended up on FCP 7, which I prefer for pure cutting. I can rock on either. X – still haven’t decided. No fun at all when you get out of its design sweet spot. But that’s me.
– oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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I also started on my NLE adventure with Avid, but prefer FCP legacy as well. Turning tracks on and off just to hear some audio or having to build a transition in the slug above a cut just isn’t fun for me…
Lance Bachelder
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[Daniel Frome] “If you’re running software-only, is the only different between MC and Symphony the secondary color correction?”
Yes, although the Symphony bundle also includes BCC8 filters, while the MC bundled doesn’t. However, the color correction is more than just secondary. With Symphony, you get “source side relational” correction (by reel, tape, clip, etc.); track and segment correction; additional tools – luma ranges, channels.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Lance Bachelder] “Turning tracks on and off just to hear some audio or having to build a transition in the slug above a cut just isn’t fun for me…
“I don’t mind the transition part, since it was more flexible than FCP until Motion integration (and in X it’s even easier to build custom transitions).
But my biggest gripe with Avid was never the day to day cutting which it does very well. It’s their implementation of effects and keyframing. And how after 30 years of existence, you still can’t manually relink files or a dozen other small nitpicky things. I actually love cutting on it if all I’m doing is cutting.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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[Lance Bachelder] “Turning tracks on and off just to hear some audio”
The audio limits do get to me as well. It really does seem, in the 2nd decade of this century, that 8 stereo tracks is a bit wheezy.
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Yeah I do a lot of animation editing and sound design as I cut so it’s always a hassle – it was the one single thing I was hoping would improve in 6 🙁
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California
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